{"id":4260,"date":"2025-05-29T02:23:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T02:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/smashing-security-podcast-419-star-wars-the-cia-and-a-whatsapp-malware-mirage\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T02:23:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T02:23:41","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-419-star-wars-the-cia-and-a-whatsapp-malware-mirage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/smashing-security-podcast-419-star-wars-the-cia-and-a-whatsapp-malware-mirage\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #419: Star Wars, the CIA, and a WhatsApp malware mirage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Smashing Security podcast #419: Star Wars, the CIA, and a WhatsApp malware mirage<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Why is a cute Star Wars fan website now redirecting to the CIA?  How come Cambodia has become the world&#8217;s hotspot for scam call centres?  And can a WhatsApp image really drain your bank account with a single download, or is it just a load of hacker hokum?<\/p>\n<p>All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning &#8220;Smashing Security&#8221; podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Allan Liska.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grahamcluley.com\/smashing-security-podcast-419\/\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smashing Security podcast #419: Star Wars, the CIA, and a WhatsApp malware mirage Why is a cute Star Wars fan website now redirecting to the CIA? How come Cambodia has become the world&#8217;s hotspot for scam call centres? And can a WhatsApp image really drain your bank account with a single download, or is it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1331,54,164,258,1210,166,417,175,1332,131,460],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cia","category-grahamcluley","category-law-order","category-malware","category-meta","category-podcast","category-romance-baiting","category-smashing-security","category-star-wars","category-vulnerability","category-whatsapp","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}